"he had eyes of bright blue"
"she was wearing blue"
"the Union army was a vast blue"
"he shot an arrow into the blue"
"October's bright blue weather" "a blue flame" "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
"a ragged blue line"
"gloomy at the thought of what he had to face" "gloomy predictions" "a gloomy silence" "took a grim view of the economy" "the darkening mood" "lonely and blue in a strange city" "depressed by the loss of his job" "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face" "downcast after his defeat" "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
"foul-mouthed and blasphemous" "blue language" "profane words"
"a blue movie" "blue jokes" "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details" "a juicy scandal" "a naughty wink" "naughty words" "racy anecdotes" "a risque story" "spicy gossip"
"an aristocratic family" "aristocratic Bostonians" "aristocratic government" "a blue family" "blue blood" "the blue-blooded aristocracy" "of gentle blood" "patrician landholders of the American South" "aristocratic bearing" "aristocratic features" "patrician tastes"
"the puritan work ethic" "puritanic distaste for alcohol" "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
"a blue day" "the dark days of the war" "a week of rainy depressing weather" "a disconsolate winter landscape" "the first dismal dispiriting days of November" "a dark gloomy day" "grim rainy weather"
